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Lyft Must Face Negligence, Product Liability Claims Over Fatal Carjacking, State Court Rules
Plaintiffs suing rideshare services for fatal incidents involving suspicious riders may have found some hope for recourse in the state courts last week, after coming up short in […]
Judge Skeptical Of Her Bid To End Case
Miley Cyrus seems unlikely to immediately escape a copyright lawsuit filed over allegations that her Grammy-winning “Flowers” infringed the Bruno Mars song “When I Was Your Man.” A […]
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Ban on Minor ‘Conversion Therapy’
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a Christian counselor’s free-speech challenge to a Colorado law prohibiting the practice of “conversion therapy” on LGBTQ children. Colorado is one of […]
Struggles Getting Stakeholder Buy-In Slowing Gen AI Adoption
Generative AI is giving in-house legal teams powerful new tools to speed up document review, surface key evidence and refine case strategies, but getting leadership, IT and external […]
LG Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Fire Hazard in Recalled Appliances Sold for Nearly a Decade
A products liability class action filed Friday in New Jersey federal court against LG Electronics claimed that the plaintiffs purchased allegedly defective stoves from the company, which had […]
Struggles Getting Stakeholder Buy-In Slow AI Adoption by In-House Counsel, Users Say
Generative AI is giving in-house legal teams powerful new tools to speed up document review, surface key evidence and refine case strategies, but getting leadership, IT and external […]
German Court Rules Pfizer, BioNTech Infringed Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Patent
Freshfields has won a Düsseldorf regional court patent dispute on behalf of client Moderna against German COVID-19 vaccine inventors BioNTech and Pfizer. BioNTech, represented by Taylor Wessing, and […]
Ed Sheeran Accusers Ask Supreme Court to Tackle ‘Let’s Get It On’ Case
The legal battle over whether Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” infringed Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On” has reached the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade after […]
Portillo’s Activist Campaign Offers Taste of What Many Companies Will Face This Year
U.S. public companies faced a record number of shareholder activist campaigns last year and likely will eclipse that record in 2025—putting C-suites and legal departments under extraordinary pressure. […]